Table 8.

Part of pangolins used, conditions treated, complementary ingredients, method of preparation cum administration, and substitute animal

S/No	Parts used	Conditions Treated	Other Ingredients	Method of Preparation	Method of Administration	Substitute Animal	Animal Part
1	Bone	Rheumatism	A variety of leaves, "iyere"	Made into concoction	To be taken once daily	None
2	Eye	Kleptomania	Two whole pods of Aframomum melegueta	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	Used to make incision on the lower eyelids, left eye of pangolin for making incision on the left eyelid, ditto for the right eye	Python	Eye
3	Female reproductive organ	Ejection of placenta	A melegueta seeds, a variety of leaves	All ingredients are grinded into powdery form	To be taken with pap	Female tortoise	Whole animal
4	Flesh	To confer abilities for divination	A melegueta seeds, leaf of "ori okan"	Made into concoction	To be ingested at once	Wall gecko, Parrot	Whole Flesh
5	Flesh	Good luck	A variety of leaves, A melegueta seeds, whole hare	Made into concoction	To be consumed all at once	None
6	Flesh	Protection	A variety of leaves, A melegueta seeds	Made into concoction	To be consumed all at once	Whole tortoise	Flesh
7	Flesh	Safety	'Oriji' leaves	Made into concoction	To be consumed all at once	None
8	Head	Good luck	"Ire, aje, sawerepepe" leaves, black soap	Roasted, grinded into powdery form, mixed with soap	Used to bath every morning	None
9	Head	Good luck	Ficus exasperata leaves, 3 pieces of Cortiles colocynthis, 3 A melegueta pods	All ingredients roasted, grinded into powdery form.	To be taken with solidified pap i.e "eko" once every Thursday	None
10	Head	Kleptomania	Left arm of chameleon	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	Used to make incision on the lower eyelids	None
11	Head	Kleptomania	Human faeces (of the client)	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	Used to make incision on lower eyelids and ingested with water	Python	Head
12	Head	Kleptomania	"Alupaida" and "Ewon pabida" leaves	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	Used to make incision on lower eyelids and ingested with pap	Crab	Whole
13	Head	Mental Illness	A variety of leaves and roots, a chunk of he-goat skull	All ingredients grinded together	To be consumed twice daily	Gorilla	Head
14	Head + tip of the tail	Breakthrough in business	A variety of leaves, soap	Ingredients grinded, mixed together with soap	To be used to bath once in a week	None
15	Internal organs	Antidote for food poison	Variety of leaves	Made into liquid mixture	To be drunk twice daily	None
16	Internal organs	Antidote for food poison	Urine of a virgin male/female	Internal organs soaked in urine for 7 days	To be drunk and used to rub the body	Cobra	Internal organs
17	Internal organs	To treat sexual poison 'magun'	"Awogbaarun" roots	Made into decoction	To be drunk immediately after attack	None
18	Limbs	Fortune rouser	7 A melegueta seeds	All the limbs of a pangolin are grinded with A melegueta seeds and buried in a dump site for 7 days, afterwards made into concoction	To be consumed all at once	None
19	Limbs+ Internal organs	Money rituals	16 pieces of Ficus exasperata leaves,3 whole A melegueta pods	Leaves and A melegueta seeds seeds grinded, used to cook pangolin parts into concoction	To be consumed all at once	None
20	Scale	Good luck	A melegueta seeds, shaft of melon seeds	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	To be taken with pap	None
21	Scale	Back pain	A melegueta seeds, shea butter, some leaves, "kafura pelebe"	Other ingredients grinded and mixed with shea butter	To be used to rub the back twice daily	None
22	Scale	Healing of wounds/cuts	A melegueta seeds	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	Powder sprinkled on the cuts/wounds and covered with a piece of cloth	None
23	Scale	High productivity on the farm	Goat fat, porcupine spine	All ingredients roasted and grinded.	To be sprinkled on the farm	None
24	Scale	High productivity on the farm	Whole tortoise Mucuna pruriens seeds, a variety of leaves	All ingredients roasted and grinded	To be sprinkled on the farm	None
25	Scale	Kleptomania	A melegueta seeds	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	To be taken with pap	None
26	Scale	Mental illness	Mainly incantations	Scales grinded for use (7 pieces for females and 9 for male)	A single dose to be ingested once daily with incantations for 16 days	None
27	Scale	Rheumatism	Shea butter, a variety of leaves	Other ingredients grinded and mixed with shea butter cream	To be used to rub affected parts	Python	Spinal cord
28	Scale	Stomach ulcer	Dead earthworm found on the road	Grinded into powdery form	To be taken with pap	None
29	Scale	Stroke	A melegueta seeds, a variety of leaves	All ingredients grinded, made into a decoction	To be drunk once daily	None
30	Scale	Venereal diseases	A variety of leaves	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	To be taken with hot water	None
31	Scale	Wading off witches	Incense burner, "Eepo obo", "eerun", "imi ojo"	All ingredients grinded and poured in incense burner	Burnt as incense indoors	None
32	Scale (whole)	Safe delivery	A melegueta seeds and a variety of leaves	Roasted and grinded into powdery form	To be taken with pap	Porcupine	Spine (whole)
33	Scale	Good luck	Bitter leaf, A melegueta seeds, "Oriji" leaves, local soap	All ingredients roasted, grinded, mixed with soap	To be used to bath every 3 days	Male lizard	Whole animal
34	Scale	Aphrodisiacs/male potency	A melegueta seeds, a variety of leaves	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	To be taken with pap continously	None
35	Scale (whole), head	Protection	A melegueta seeds, porcupine spine	Roasted, grinded into powdery form	To be ingested with pap	Cobra	Head/ whole skin
36	Scale	Antibiotics	Hare carcass, gun powder, "iyere", "Kafura pelebe"	All ingredients grinded	To be taken with pap	None
37	Thorax	Convulsion	A juvenile dog, A melegueta seeds, a variety of leaves	Made into concoction	To be consumed as soup	None
38	Thorax	Menstrual pain	A whole crab, shrew,Citrullus colocynthis, 'iru' melon, 'ogiri'	All ingredient cooked into concoction	10 oz to be drank 3 times daily	None
39	Thorax	Unconsciousness	"Igi aaka" roots	Grinded into powdery form	To be swallowed with water	None
40	Thorax	Wading off/preventing rain	A whole A melegueta pod, a variety of leaves, a padlock	All ingredients, grinded, packed in a piece of rag, tied to the padlock	Incantation is recited on the padlock, it is nailed to a tree	None
41	Vertebral bones	Stroke	Riverside banana, "ifon", roots "eru alamo"	Cooked into concoction	To be taken 3 times daily	None
42	Whole animal	Building rituals	Palm oil, Salt, "Iyere", "Olugelegele" leaves	Blood is placed in a new plate, and the whole flesh is divided into 16 pieces	Blood poured on the floor, and flesh eaten as concoction	None
43	Whole animal	Good fortune	Sponge used to bath a human corpse, a whole pod of A melegueta, "owo ara tangiri" soap	All ingredients grinded, mixed with soap, poured in a white container	To be used to bath on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday	None
44	Whole animal	Prosperity	A melegueta seeds, black soap	All ingredients grinded and mixed with black soap	To be used to bath regularly	None
45	Whole animal	Wading off/curing bad illness & sickness	A melegueta seeds, a variety of leaves, black soap	Roasted, grinded into powdery form, mixed with soap	To be used to bath regularly	None
46	Whole tail	High productivity on the farm	Porcupine spine, "jiwini", leaves Mucuna pruriens leaves "ekuru"	All ingredients grinded into powder	To be sprinkled on the farm	None
47	Whole tail	Kleptomania	A variety of leaves	Grinded into powder	Used to make incision on the wrists and taken with pap	None